Favorite Female Artists

Maureen McGovern (causes impure thoughts through headphones) :smoke:
Sarah McLaughlin :yes: :naughty:
Sara Brightman (impure thoughts sometimes as well) :naughty:
Frederica Von Stade
Sarah Vaughan (early stuff)
Ella Fitzgerald (early stuff)


There are others too, but now I'm getting all worked up.

BK in K
 
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Toasted Almond said:
Della Reese all the way. You Ella fans ever hear the live recording from Berlin, when she forgot the words to "Mack the Knife" and made up her own as she went along? Incredible. I have it around here somewhere.

Toasted Almond

It is on Essential Ella and you are right it is incredible. I am going to throw in Nancy Griffith. Crystal clear voice.
 
styler said:
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LMAO :rofl: You're talking to someone who cruises the net a lot, Styler. I bet she makes GREAT music :smsex:

I'll also second (or third or fourth) Sarah McLachlan, and also add opera singer Cecilia Bartoli. <growlsssssssssss>

Tom
 
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Wow...
From the modern era not a single mention of Joni Mitchell...
From a while ago not a single mention of Billie Holiday or Ruth Brown...

Was good to see mentioned:
Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)
Beth Gibbons (AKA the "Portishead chick")

Another haunting, airy voice I did not see was Tracey Thorn (Everything But the Girl)
 
Hey,I'll double second Joni Mitchell,not so much for her voice as
for her songs and her outstanding record career, especially her mid
and late seventies albums will blow your mind... Listen to 'The hissing
of summer lawns ( Prince's all favourite Mitchell album). Listen to 'Don Juan's
reckless dauhter or to 'Mingus' . You'll be blown away by her musical audacity.


And uhmm, I like Rita Hayworth's acting and singing in 'Put the blame on Mame' (in Gilda.)

And ,Sandy Denny,wew,talk and dream about fragility.

Regards
JD
 
Linda Rondstadt
Cassandra Wilson
Patricia Barbour
Dianna Krall
Etta James
Aretha
And newcomer Jesse Alexander :thmbsp:
 
Russ is having trouble posting, so he asked me to submit that HIS favorite female arteest is.........none other than...........drum roll...............................

WENDY CARLOS!!!!!!!!
 
Miss Billie Holiday
Ella (specially as a youngster, WHOA what pipes)
Bessie Smith (a suprise if you have never heard this little firecracker)
Edith Piaf (The little French Sparrow)
Caterina Valente
Miss Peggy Lee (you had to hear her in a small club setting)
Miss Rosemary Clooney (with Duke Ellington)

living in Vegas in the 50s had its perks...

Janis Joplin
k.d. lang
Diana Krall
 
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